Beschreibung:
Anne Donadey is Associate Professor, Comparative Literature and Women's Studies, The University of Iowa.
This book analyzes works of Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar in context of postcolonial theory and French-Algerian history, literature and visual arts.
Preface; Introduction: Recasting Postcolonialism; Historical Amnesia and the Construction of National Identity; The "Algeria Syndrome"; Re-membering Colonial History; Inter/Textual Subversions; Refiguring French. Orientalist Painting; Metissage and Representation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.